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1. The earliest type of ship, that used many men rowing large oars were called what? (Sails were also used, but due to their unreliability, oar power usually drove the ship.)
2. In 480 B.C., the Athenian navy, under Themistocles, destroyed half the Persian fleet at what great naval battle?
3. Longships were built by which great explorers, warriors, and traders?
4. Turkish influence in Europe was much diminished by their defeat at the hands of the Venetians, allied with the Papal States and Spain, in what battle in 1571? (This was also the last major battle utilizing galleys.)
5. Which of the following countries was NOT a rising naval power in the sixteenth century?
6. The English had more ships in the battle of the Spanish Armada.
7. Who commanded the English fleet that fought the Spanish Armada?
8. With which country did England fight a series of three naval wars in the seventeenth century? (In the first of these wars, the concept of dividing a fleet into squadrons came into use.)
9. On October 21, 1805, off the coast of Spain, a British fleet of 27 ships under Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated a combined French and Spanish fleet of 33 ships under the command of which admiral?
10. In 1807, what British ship attacked the U.S.S. Chesapeake and inflicted 21 casualties and boarded it to search for deserted British seamen?
11. In what year did Robert Fulton first build his first steam powered vessel?
12. In the Crimean War, what innovation allowed the Russians to defeat Turkish ships easily?
13. What kind of ship was the fastest trading vessel of the mid-1800s and was developed by American shipwrights in the 1830s and 1840s?
14. Before World War I, which nation was not one of the three greatest sea-powers?
15. What was the name of Admiral Horatio Nelson's flagship?
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